Sweet Alice 'Magic Circles'
Sweet Alice 'Magic Circles' is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Magic Circles' is a delightful mix of pastel-tinted fragrant flowers in soft pink, lilacs, and white that form a dense carpet. The flowers are highly attractive to bees and a range of beneficial insects. It is ideal to use in containers, rockeries, cottage gardens or as edging for flower beds. Hardy and easy to grow from seed, it is frost resistant but drought tender.
Product: Sweet Alice 'Magic Circles'
Product type: SEED (500)
Botanical name: Lobularia maritima
Syn.: Syn. Alyssum
Magic Circles' is a delightful mix of pastel-tinted fragrant flowers in soft pink, lilacs and white that form a dense carpet. The flowers are highly attractive to bees and a range of beneficial insects. It is ideal to use in containers, rockeries, cottage gardens or as edging for flower beds. Hardy and easy to grow from seed, it is frost resistant but drought tender.
Plant type: Annual, low growing flower
Plant height: 12 cm; upright growth habit
Sow when: Germinate best at 20°C
Temperate: Early spring to autumn
Subtropical: All year if frost-free
Tropical: Dry season
Germination: 7 - 14 days
Depth: 2 – 5 mm deep, cover with fine sand
Position: Full sun to partial shade
Sow where: Sow direct or in in seedling trays for later transplanting
Soil type: Tolerant of a wide range soils
Details: Sow seed thinly, the germination rate is high; also self-sows in good conditions
Flowering: 56 days
*Good for bees
500 seeds per packet
Lobularia maritima
Syn. Alyssum